English Teaching Resources

Other Cultures Poetry Teaching Resources

AQA other cultures: A booklet to help students understand the
assessment objectives with modelled examples from cluster 2 of
the anthology.

AQA other cultures revision: Cut up the cards and distribute for students
to match up.

Comparing poems 1: Useful to help students in their first
attempts to compare poems.

Dominoes 1: A set of domino cards for both clusters of the AQA
spec A poems and suggestions of ways to use them for revision.

From unrelated incidents1: Range of tasks including a cloze exercise.

From unrelated incidents: Activities on standard English and a translation grid.

Making links: A list of the AQA Spec A poems and suggested
comparisons that can be drawn between them. Useful for
discussion, display and revision.

Night of the Scorpion group task: Preparation advice on two
aspects of the poem. Includes relevant assessment objectives for
AQA spec A.

List of words: Selection of words from the poem 'Nothing's Changed' for students to
sort and discuss in order to consider content, imagery and themes in the
poem. Can also ask students to pick out what they think would make
the best title for the poem and/or ask them to write their own version
using the words available.

Presents and hurricane card sort: Students put the essay into
the most effective order. Uses the poems 'Presents from my Aunts
in Pakistan' and 'Hurricane'.

Presents and hurricane card answer: The 'correct' essay for the
card sort resource.

Sample essay plan: A sample essay plan for a question on
'Nothing's Changed' and 'Blessing' (question taken from the
an AQA spec A paper).